Helen Skouteris is the Monash Warwick Alliance Joint Professor of Healthcare Improvement and Implementation Science at Monash University. Helen will be focused on establishing long term collaborative reesarch and education/training programs in healthcare improvement, implementation science/health servcies research, working with colleagues from the Monash Centre for Health Research (where Helen is based), Monash University, Warwick University, Monash Partners and beyond.  

Helen has a strong track record in longitudinal multi-factorial research, randomised controlled trials, implementation research and hgiher degree reesarch supervision. Her research since 2010 has predominantly focused on building agency/capacity in "the consumer' to make healthy lifestyle cjocies across preconception, pregnancy, preschool, and childhood, including adolesence, to reducde the burden of obesity. Her work has also been focused extensively on social service and educational sector improvement that translates to better health outcomes for children, young people, adults and families and is critical to transforming policy across these sectors.